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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle’s thought, the authors have produced an English-language translation of the…

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Aesthetic Theory

Theodor W. Adorno

This text on aesthetics includes major sections on: Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; and Towards a Theory of…

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State of Exception

Giorgio Agamben

Distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the unusual extensions of executive power seized during states of emergency, a historically underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies…

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Philosophy for Militants

Alain Badiou

Badiou’s most accessible book and essential reading for militants everywhere

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A Thousand Plateaus

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation),Felix Guattari ((1930-1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, social theorist and radical activist. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze.)

This book has set the agenda for contemporary Continental philosophy, arguing for a new theory of radical democracy in politics and art. A Thousand Plateaus completes the landmark philosophical project…

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Writing and Difference

Jacques Derrida

In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.

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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Major Works is the finest single-volume anthology of influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s important writings. Featuring the complete texts of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books: Studies for ‘Philosophical…

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A Little History of Philosophy

Nigel Warburton

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. This book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about…

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Republic

Plato

A complete translation of Plato’s classic work, supplemented with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms.

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A Secular Age

Charles Taylor

Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over the years. This book takes up the question of what these changes mean -…

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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Soren Kierkegaard

Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard’s major works. The author plays devil’s advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question…

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Supposing that truth is a woman, what then? In this book, the author critiques the mediocre in modernity and challenges the reader to accept their state of becoming and accept…

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Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

A knowledge of Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit is essential for anyone who wishes to understand a great deal of recent continental work in theology as well as philosophy. Yet until…

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A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice

Raimond Gaita

In this marvellous book, Raimond Gaita, the acclaimed author of Romulus, My Father , reflects on ideas about good and evil, guilt and remorse, forgiveness and compassion. In his discussion…

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History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

History Of Western Philosophy was published in 1946. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy.

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Ethics

Benedict Spinoza

Provides a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. This book follows a logical format, it defines in turn the nature of God…

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Well Read Philosophy

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Aesthetic Theory

State of Exception

Philosophy for Militants

A Thousand Plateaus

Writing and Difference

Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings

A Little History of Philosophy

Republic

A Secular Age

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Beyond Good and Evil

Being and Time

A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice

History of Western Philosophy

Ethics